Then Gina and Matt were 1st only be end up being 2nd again.

Turns out the RC miss read the H16 finish time ; it was correct to 4:26:46 from 3:26:46. Wahh, whats one hour difference ! Well it sort of put the H16 from 1st to 8th position.

And that would have lead Gina and Matt to 1st place were it not for some more USPN magic. Turns out that the Nacra 5.2 sloop with spinnaker, modified squaretop main and being sailed singlehanded could one modification factor wrong. Its modified mainsail was within the 5 % size margin and therefor the MN (0.99) correction over the ML (0.975) correction had to be used. And that was enough to put him pass teh Blade F16 for 1st place.

Unbelievable how much fun you can have as an RC when handicapping such a distance race !

See here the updated results :





I looked up the N5.2 specs.

Boatweight 155 kg boat weight singlehanded at 75 kg or so = 230 kg overall
Length 5.18 mtr
Mast height 8.3 mtr or so
mainsail about 15.03 sq.mtr.
jib 4.34 sq .mtr
spi : must be somewhere between 17 and 21 sq. mtr.

If we compare this too the Blade F16

Boatweight 110 kg or so (prototype) + 135 kg crew = about 245 kg overall
Length 5 mtr
mast height 8.5 mtr.
Mainsail 14.85 sq. mtr
Jib 3.65 sq.mtr.
Spi : 17.5 sq.mtr.

The two boats look bloody comparable in 0 to 12 knots of winds, with the N5.2 being singlehanded appearing to have an edge in area to weight. And the Hagar race results show a similar elapsed time result. The boy got lucky with the UPSN modifiers.

All good fun. They gave eachother a race and the N5.2 finished 22 second behind Matt and Gina after some 3 hours and 12 minutes racing. That is really close.

It looks like this is going to be the final standing.

Ohh before I forget the RC wrote under the results :



Wouter